• the upper part of the abdomen is coppery brown; the lower part is beige

• in young animals the upper part of the abdomen is metallic green

Wings

• the (dark) brown pterostigma is positioned closer to the tip in the forewing than in the hindwing; when the wings are folded together, the pterostigmas in the forewings are aligned behind those in the hindwings

Photographs

• nearly all of our photos below were made in Bavaria

Sympecma paedisca; thoraxNote: By contrast, this bulge does not occur in the very similar S. fusca.

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